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...teeth. John and Leo got a toothbrush, tried to clean the foam away. When Bing growled at them, John said: "Stop it, Bing. Remember, you must never bite, no matter what we do to you." The foam kept coming in Bing's mouth so the boys got a hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bird Songs & Skins | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

Self-Help. Over Los Angeles Pilot Paul Munro, flying solo, set the controls of his Curtiss Robin, crawled aft in the cabin, seized a fuel hose dangling from a : nurse ship. He helped himself to 132 gal. of gasoline, returned to his cockpit, flew on. Seven times Pilot Munro repeated the performance, landed only 43 min. short of a new (38 hr.) solo duration record because of a long-distance quarrel with the nurse pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: On Kill Devil Hill | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...which was one of the most important objects in the amazing house he built on Fifth Avenue. Senator Clark's Joan is now in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. As children Bernard and his brother Roger, now a writer, posed for that panel for hours in doublet & hose.* One of their most vivid childish recollections is the old copper tycoon's glittering gold teeth. As an artist, Bernard Boutet de Monvel absorbed everything but his father's sly sense of humor. Fifty years old. almost theatrically handsome, his life sounds like the day dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Boulevardier | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...merchants who encourage dependent wives to luxurious credit buying, Author Clarence Budington Kelland contested a suit brought against him by a Manhattan gownshop for bills of $3,313 incurred by his wife. Said he: "I allege that my financial condition at no time would justify a characterization of hose at $6.50 a pair, a white Panama hat at $40, cloth coat at $420, dresses at $225 and $250, and perfumery at $25 or $15, as necessaries for my wife." Ill lay: Mrs- John Work Garrett, of bronchial influenza, in Baltimore; Charles Spencer Chaplin, of food poisoning, in Hollywood; Dr, Rolla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 17, 1932 | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

When souvenir seekers tried to dash forward and dip their handkerchiefs into the wide, dark pool of blood, police forced them sternly back, hitched a hose to a neighboring hydrant, washed the street scrupulously clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: To the Russian Peasantry . . . | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

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